Plan for Streak to re-sign

WARWICKSHIRE are again considering registering their captain Heath Streak as a European-qualified player under the Kolpak employment regulations next season to give them the option of signing another overseas player.

WARWICKSHIRE are again considering registering their captain Heath Streak as a European-qualified player under the Kolpak employment regulations next season to give them the option of signing another overseas player.

Former Zimbabwe all-rounder Streak has played the last three seasons at Edgbaston as an overseas player and is due to return for a fourth in the same category.

But Streak is eligible to be reclassified as Kolpak player because Zimbabwe are one of the nations who have the requisite trade agreement with Europe and he is no longer playing international cricket.

If Streak can be persuaded to re-register as a Kolpak player Warwickshire will be penalised financially by the ECB for playing a non-England qualified player but it would give them the option of signing an overseas seamer.